Comment by padolsey

2 days ago

Before you fully delete your account, don't forget to first save your chats! Go to https://chatgpt.com/#settings/DataControls and click Export under "Export Data".

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ddxv  2 days ago

What value does this give you? Part of why I deleted my account was I couldn't think of a single thing of value in my chats from the past couple years? Maybe some nostalgia looking at what bugs I was fixing?

  • Nevermark  2 days ago

    You’re confusing your situation with others. There are unlimited reasons someone else might want their chats.

    • ddxv  2 days ago

      Yeah, just curious what those reasons are? Like a valuable thought process you want to keep? Or like a data dump that is useful for looking at later?

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  • puchatek  2 days ago

    For me this is very valuable. The results of personal "research projects" are in there. I use it for reference. Of course I could ask Claude to get me those answers but why waste the energy?

    • ddxv  2 days ago

      Thank you, was just kind of curious. I've never really seen how other people use AI chats so was curious what the use cases were.

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  • busko  1 day ago

    Upvoted because you were genuinely asking a question and don't deserve to be down voted for that.

    • ddxv  1 day ago

      Thanks, but I guess I understand the sentiment. I probably should have not said that I couldn't think of "a single thing of value" when that is a bit of a judgement along with my question. Anyways, it is interesting hearing what people ask it, I think I've only ever used it like a search engine / bug fixing while it seems some people have much deeper conversations or discussions that are worth remembering.

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atomicfiredoll  1 day ago

Thanks. I've been meaning to do this for a couple days and this made it easy enough to do in the moment.